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Saturday, February 23, 2013

This evening at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Victoria, the Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) held their 6th Annual AFCA Awards for the best films of 2012.

Wayne Blair's The Sapphires took the top prize in winning Best Film. It also won for Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Mauboy) and Music Score. The comedy is about a group of Aboriginal women singers in the 1960s.

Lore by Cate Shortland won the most awards, however. It won for Best Director, Actress (Saskia Rosendahl), Screenplay, Cinematography and Production Design. The film is a World War II drama that is almost completely in German.
The Foreign Language Film winners were last year's Oscar-winning Hugo and A Separation.

Complete list of winners for the 6th Annual Australian Film Critics Association Awards

BEST FILMThe Sapphires

BEST DIRECTOR
Cate Shortland, Lore

BEST ACTOR
Joel Edgerton, Wish You Were Here

BEST ACTRESS
Saskia Rosendahl, Lore

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Garry Waddell, The King Is Dead

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jessica Mauboy, The Sapphires

BEST SCREENPLAYLore, Cate Shortland & Robin Mukherjee

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Adam Arkapaw, Lore

BEST EDITING
Martin Connor, Burning Man

BEST MUSIC SCORE
Cezary Skubiszewski, The Sapphires

BEST OVERALL PRODUCTION DESIGN
Silke Fischer, Lore

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, FOREIGN LANGUAGEA Separation

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM, ENGLISH LANGUAGEHugo

BEST DOCUMENTARYSearching For Sugarman

Nominations for the 6th Annual Australian Film Critics Association Awards

BEST FILMHailLoreThe King is Dead! The Sapphires Wish You Were Here

BEST DIRECTOR
Wayne Blair, The Sapphires
Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Hail
Kieran Darcy-Smith, Wish You Were Here
Rolf de Heer, The King Is Dead!
Cate Shortland, Lore